Does CFAR have a script for doing what Gendlin refers to as “fitting”? That’s the hardest part by far, for me anyway. It’s easy enough to know that something is wrong, but I’ve almost never achieved the felt shift that supposedly accompanies correctly fitting and resolving the felt sense.
It’s hard to teach. You need to be willing to try out a lot of labels, including labels that scare you or that seem ridiculous or melodramatic (which is another way of saying that they scare you). We’ve experimented with pairing participants up with CFAR instructors and mentors who can guide them in various ways towards labels, but that’s a hard and idiosyncratic process and I don’t have much to say about it at this level of generality.
Does CFAR have a script for doing what Gendlin refers to as “fitting”? That’s the hardest part by far, for me anyway. It’s easy enough to know that something is wrong, but I’ve almost never achieved the felt shift that supposedly accompanies correctly fitting and resolving the felt sense.
It’s hard to teach. You need to be willing to try out a lot of labels, including labels that scare you or that seem ridiculous or melodramatic (which is another way of saying that they scare you). We’ve experimented with pairing participants up with CFAR instructors and mentors who can guide them in various ways towards labels, but that’s a hard and idiosyncratic process and I don’t have much to say about it at this level of generality.